Reginald Lane Poole or Lane-Poole, FBA (1857–1939), was a British historian. He was

Keeper of the Archives The position of Keeper of the Archives at the University of Oxford in England dates from 1634, when it was established by new statutes for the university brought in by William Laud (Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of the University of ...

and a lecturer in diplomatics at the

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, where he gave the

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in 1912 on the subject of "The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century".

Life

The second of three children (two sons and a daughter) of Edward Stanley Poole (1830–1867) and his wife, Roberta Elizabeth Louisa (1828–1866), daughter of Charles Reddelien, a naturalized German, the "Lane" in his surname comes from his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, author of ''An Englishwoman in Egypt'' (1844). Both his mother and father died during his childhood, so Poole and his siblings were raised by their grandmother Sophia Lane Poole and their great-uncle

Edward William Lane Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his ''Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians'' and the '' Arabic-English Lexicon,'' as well as his translati ...

. He was the father of

Austin Lane Poole Austin Lane Poole, FBA (6 December 1889 – 22 February 1963) was a British mediaevalist. Poole came from an academic lineage, being the son of Reginald Lane Poole (archive keeper at the University of Oxford), the nephew of Stanley Lane Poole ( ...

(1889–1963), also a historian and Ford's Lecturer; the brother of the orientalist

Stanley Lane-Poole Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (18 December 1854 – 29 December 1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. Biography Lane Poole was Born in London, England, the eldest of three children (two sons and a daughter) of Edward Stanley Poole (1830 ...

; and the nephew of

Reginald Stuart Poole Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 18328 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was from a famous Orientalist family; his mother Sophia Lane Poole, his uncle Edward William Lane an ...

Works

Among other works, he edited a ''Political History of England'' (twelve volumes, 1905–10) with

William Hunt William, Bill, or Billy Hunt may refer to: Arts and entertainment * William Henry Hunt (painter) (1790–1864), English water-colour painter * William Morris Hunt (1824–1879), American painter * William Holman Hunt (1827–1910), British painter ...

. His works include: *''History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion'' (1880) *''Sebastian Bach'' (1882) *''Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought'' (1884) *''Wycliffe and Movements for Reform'' (1889) *''Historical Atlas of Modern Europe'' (1897–1902) * . *''Lectures on the History of the Papal Chancery'' (1915) *''Medieval Reckonings of Time'' (1918) * . *''Studies in Chronology and History'' (1934) In 1912 Reginald Lane Poole rediscovered the identity of

Henry Symeonis Henry Symeonis (fl. 1225–1264) was a wealthy Englishman from Oxford, who became the target of a "very strange" 550-year-long grudge at the University of Oxford. Until 1827, Oxford graduates had to swear an oath never to be reconciled with Hen ...

, a 13th-century figure whom Oxford students had had to swear not to forgive for centuries after forgetting who he was.

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1857 births 1939 deaths British historians English archivists Keepers of the Archives of the University of Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Lane family {{England-historian-stub